Most of the time it is the HotSpot JVM that is used as the Java run time and the HotSpot JVM is owned by Oracle. Scala is designed to run (compile to a byte code) on a JVM, be it HotSpot or J9.
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Michael Krimgen wrote:it was developed by a team at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
... and there's still time to sign and learn about Functional Programming Principles In Scala from the language's creator Martin Odersky of EPFL at Coursera - course starts on 25 March and I can highly recommend it.